Gameinformer.com has the low down on all things Gears of War 3. According to their "Coalition of Ordered Governments," which seems to be "leaking" a profile or other news bit about Gears 3 just about every day this month, there are a few interesting profiles of the old and new Gears characters. The biggest change has been the evolution of Anya, going from office babe to badass soldier, to really badass soldier, which is evidence by the art that goes with her profile page.

It's time for another Battlefield Report. Unfortunately, gaming for this soldier has been sparse recently, so for your enjoyment this file is restricted to one extra-descriptive battle. Hang your hat and read on.

During our preview of Charlie Murder from PAX East, we were told the current Xbox Live Indie title may be coming to other platforms.  At first, I thought this meant Ska Studios may be branching out to the PC or possibly the PlayStation 3, but, what actually was happening was some behind the scenes negotiations with Microsoft.  

Skating always proved more fun for Isaac when accompanied by the ambient sound of spooky nursery rhymes

Now that uber game service Steam is available for Macs, more and more titles are being released for Apple's long neglected (by game companies, at least) platform.  One new addition is Killing Floor, a strong co-op zombie slaying title.  We thought rather highly of the title, and it's on sale for 33% off the standard $20 price.  Best of all, cross-platform play is enabled, meaning you can slaughter hordes of undead with a friend regardless of their preference for a computer.

The above pictured Japanese magazine has officially leaked the full game co-op title Virtual-On Force, which is similar to the XBLA version "Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram," only bigger and more co-opey. Virtual On is Sega's version of Armored Core - giant mechs, guns, explosions, etc. The arcade game is a world of fun, but Kotaku has the scoop so far on what the full game will contain.

I'm going to enjoy seeing the Twitter responses when this post gets auto-tweeted to the Co-Optimus followers. Most confusing headline ever? May be.

"Which side are you on?"  While some of us have flashes to Marvel's Civil War story arc, High Moon Studios, the developer for the upcoming co-op Transformers: The War for Cybertron third-person action/shooter title, is wondering which side you and your co-op buddies will be choosing first: the Decepticons or the Autobots.  In a recently released video, some of the game's developers discuss how the campaign was developed specifically with an eye towards co-op play in mind.  

Now that Steam is available on Mac computers, we're looking forward to a lot of co-op announcements. One of those announcements comes from our beloved Playbrains, developers of the hit co-op game Madballs in...Babo: Invasion. Madballs will be joining the Mac Steam family, complete with a few pleasant features that will have PC and Mac users playing co-op in the Madballs struggle today.

I have a love/hate relationship with JRPGs. We always start off on a good foot: I admire the often impressive graphics, delight over whatever crazy-complicated combat system it offers, thrill over opening the chests and equipping my characters. Ten (or twenty, or thirty) hours later, I can easily find myself cursing its random encounters, its stubborn adherence to save points (which often come few and far between), and its convoluted storyline that had ceased to make any sense and appears to never end. A reveal of some new system or gaining better understanding of some already existing gameplay element that was holding me back can soothe my rage and I can go back to enjoying it again or I drop the genre in disgust until the next shiny, plastic-wrapped box courtesy of Japan whispers promises that this one will be different. This isn't the pattern of all JRPGs I've played, but sadly, it's a common pattern.

The world of cooperative gaming is evolving so rapidly, I think it's catching some people off guard. In only half a decade we've gone from famine to feast in terms of co-op offerings in games. But what about single player games? Are we seeing a complete shift - a shoe on the other foot scenario?

The extended version of the Call of Duty: Black Ops trailer that was aired last night on ESPN is now available - in it we get our first real glimpse of the next game in the series.